Accessibility features in the new release

[deborah]

There are a few accessibility improvement in last night's code push, detailed here for your viewing pleasure:

• The form to submit a support request now has labels so it can be reasonably navigated with a screenreader.
• The UI used by support volunteers now has improved visual indicators so that it doesn't rely on colors to relay information.
• The cut tag arrows are now higher resolution and scale properly for people using larger font sizes.

There are also two accessibility *ahem* bugs introduced in last night's code push: the new cut tag arrows don't have a white outline so they are difficult or impossible to see on dark backgrounds, and a fix to the contextual userhead hover to fix coloration in certain styles causes viewing problems in certain other styles. Fixes for both of these will be pushed ASAP.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for keeping me in the loop. How did you discover those contrast bugs so quickly?

[ninetydegrees]

I don't know if I should mention this here but I've made a stylish style to make the borders solid again if one needs them to be. (dashed or dotted boxes are a problem for me so I may not be the only one). This is totally not me saying they shouldn't have been changed BTW. :)